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Saturday, June 25, 2016

Time is Running Out!






Today marks the last day of my birthday sale-ebration.  If you haven't joined the party, now is the time!  Everything in my store (except bundles) is just 99₵ for one. last. day.

This has been a wonderful birthday celebration!  THANK YOU to those wonderful partiers who have joined in on the fun.  



The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.     
Stephen R. Covey

Friday, June 24, 2016

It's Day 2 of my Birthday Sale-ebration!


If you haven't joined the party yet at my TPT store, I hope you'll stop by today.  This is day 2 of the 3 day sale-ebration for my birthday. Everything in my store is just 99₵; only bundles are excluded.  That means...


When I blew out the candles on my birthday cake, my wish was that I could get my products in your hands.  I hope that wish comes true.

 


Thursday, June 23, 2016

It's Here!


The wait is over!  It's here; MY BIRTHDAY.


Please help me celebrate!




Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely. 
~Thomas P. Murphy

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Hang On!



Tomorrow is the day!


He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.              
              ~Thomas Fuller

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

It's Worth the Wait!



Just 2 more days.

It's worth the wait.



Your greatest resource is your time. 
                                                       ~Brian Tracy

Monday, June 20, 2016

It's Coming!!!



...in 3 days.

But you'll get no spoiler alerts from me.  All I'll say is that you don't want to miss it!



In time, things will fall right in place.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The Farming Life


I live in the midwest. Farming is huge here. We may not have beautiful beaches or majestic mountains, but the heartland provides it's own beauty. Every spring, I am thrilled to see the fields return to green and marvel at the growth rate of the corn that's just been planted. I'm a born and raised city girl, but most of my extended family lives the farm life. So I speak with a clear understanding when I say that life is not easy! But it is necessary. And we should thank a farmer 3 times a day for the bounty their work has created.

I have a fun, farm story my father used to tell. Dad was a professor of animal science at the Univ. of IL for over 4 decades.  At some point in the 1960s, he helped to create the Farm-in-the-Zoo displays at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.  In the dairy barn, the display showed how milk from the milking machines was pumped up through glass pipes on its journey to the collection tank.  When a group of Chicago teachers and students ventured in, one teacher asked Dad, in all earnestness, when the color was added to the milk.  You see, the glass pipes were being flushed with water at the time!


Having a fondness for the farm, I take pleasure in teaching my kiddos about it.  If you, too, incorporate lessons about farming, you may be interested in some of the farm centers and units I have created.  You can find them here.

Among those materials is the following center: 


In keeping with a farm animals theme, Ducks in a Row Literacy Center provides practice with letter sounds and phonological awareness.






Get your Ducks in a Row!


The greatest gift you can give to someone is your time.